Design and Construction of a Portable Electronic Sleep Inducer for Low Resource Settings
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2020-09
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Faculty of Engineering, FUOYE, Nigeria
Abstract
Good quality restful sleep is indispensable to mental and physical health. However, pressure due to busy life style, work and
sometimes physiological factors have placed constraints on adequate and healthy sleep pattern leading to several sleep disorders such as
insomnia, sleep apnea and restless leg syndrome. Sleep disorder affects the quality of life of such patients as it grossly reduces efficiency at
work and leads to poor mental and physical health. Available drugs to treat this disorder are addictive with strong adverse effects, while
existing devices to provide intervention are very expensive. Hence, the development of an affordable, portable electronic sleep inducer with
display unit is presented. It uses geomagnetic property of the earth coupled with electromagnetic wave induction to stimulate sleep. The signal
frequency was generated by IC4047 coupled with Arduino Uno and ATmega 328p for device control. The output of this electronic sleep inducer
is found to satisfactorily produce 5.89 Hz and 3.58 Hz for theta and delta waves respectively, needed to induce sleep. It consumes less power
and it is rechargeable.
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Sleep, Sleep disorder, Insomnia, Geomagnetic wave